Calgary Fire Fighters helped save a crane operator this week. City of Calgary
Calgary firefighters recently rescued a crane operator from the top of a crane.
At roughly 9 a.m. on Wednesday, November 19, the Calgary Fire Department Technical Rescue team responded to a medical emergency at a construction site in the 200 block of 8 Ave SE.
Once on scene, fire fighter crews were met by a worker who stated that the crane operator was having a medical emergency.
One of the firefighters climbed up the crane and started a patient assessment, while other crew members prepared the rescue equipment and gear.
The firefighter who climbed the crane and attended to the patient, it was determined the operator was not able to get down on their own.
As a result, the technical rescue team proceeded to climb the crane and set up a rope system.
Firefighters climbed and carried equipment up the approximately 50-meter/16 story crane tower and set up a rope system anchored to the peak of the tower.
The crane operator was then harnessed and lowered with a rescuer safely to the ground.
After fire crews and Emergency Health Services personnel transferred the patient to an ambulance, fire crew dissembled the rope systems and lowered the gear to the ground.
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